I think at the time a lot of people just heard 'NHS' as opposed to 'NHS charities' and believed they were donating to help save/fund the NHS.
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Also if he had been taken ill while abroad, that would have been a further burden on the health services there.
The whole thing was outrageously selfish on top of everything else.
I remember the backlash people received at the time for being even mildly critical. People in this country are so bloody thick!Also if he had been taken ill while abroad, that would have been a further burden on the health services there.
The whole thing was outrageously selfish on top of everything else.
I know, a lot of people just don't question anything.
I spat my tea out when I read an email at work about a charity event in the hospital back in mid 2020. The idea was that everyone (this was NHS staff) would donate £20 and receive a Rubik's cube, which they would then solve on the day and hand to someone who would arrange them all on the floor to create a giant portrait of Captain Tom. I think there were supposed to be 900 cubes, and the idea was that you'd keep one afterwards and the NHS charity would keep the change. It was cancelled literally hours after the email went out, presumably someone with sense pointed out that most people don't know how to solve the cubes and so trying to get 900 people to do it would be insane.
"The idea was that everyone (this was NHS staff) would donate £20 and receive a Rubik's cube, which they would then solve on the day and hand to someone who would arrange them all on the floor to create a giant portrait of Captain Tom"
What a bizarre and baroque idea!
What a bizarre and baroque idea!
lol she doesnt give a tit.
Anyone with any self awareness or morals would see the outrage from the public when she was appointed in a consultancy role on a crazy wage and think “hang on I need to tone this down”.
not her. She ploughed on with her efforts to get a Spa built
I didn’t buy into the hype as I saw through it but didn’t feel I could voice it to anyone as I’d have been lynched at the time. I thought the press coverage was too much.
It made me furious when everybody was locked down and some had to cancel Christmas plans at the last minute as they were moved into Tier 4 but CT and his family swanned off to Barbados.
One of my neighbours had to say goodbye to his elderly mother on a screen and I’m sure it was standard for many others but CT had his whole family visiting him. How is that fair?
It made me furious when everybody was locked down and some had to cancel Christmas plans at the last minute as they were moved into Tier 4 but CT and his family swanned off to Barbados.
One of my neighbours had to say goodbye to his elderly mother on a screen and I’m sure it was standard for many others but CT had his whole family visiting him. How is that fair?
It was totally unfair and totally wrong. I remember a poster here saying they got to witness it firsthand.
I also know people who are beyond heartbroken at the fact that they lost a parent or relative during that awful time and didn't get to be with them to hold their hands, or to say a last goodbye.
Yet they could do as they pleased. Is that due to their arrogance and sense of entitlement, I don't know.
Which came first the chicken or the egg?
It's like all the colours drained from her!
Heartbroken doesn’t really touch it. I will carry the guilt for the rest of my life that I couldn’t be with my Dad when he needed me the most. In my head, I know the guilt is not warranted because it was beyond my control but it’s there all the same, the heaviness I carry in my heart. (just typing that and tears are pouring down my cheeks). I spoke to a stranger last week who lost his mum the same way. He feels the same as me. We let them down. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.It was totally unfair and totally wrong. I remember a poster here saying they got to witness it firsthand.
I also know people who are beyond heartbroken at the fact that they lost a parent or relative during that awful time and didn't get to be with them to hold their hands, or to say a last goodbye.
Yet they could do as they pleased. Is that due to their arrogance and sense of entitlement, I don't know.
Which came first the chicken or the egg?
Then a few weeks later Hannah and her gang swan off to the hospital and spend days at her father’s bedside and then shared his last words with the world. Awful woman.
I have said before. We got flapjacks and bottles of water.
Would have preferred Quavers and gin but you can't be seen as demanding.
That's the thing isn't it? Rules for the ordinary folk who just had to deal but not for some others. Why? It's hard to swallow.
I'd like to think (all things being equal) that this is her moment of hubris but I doubt it.
They'll "soldier" on in affluence or perhaps effluence.
Not certain her husband will. His liver looks set to explode judging by the pics.
I'd like to think (all things being equal) that this is her moment of hubris but I doubt it.
They'll "soldier" on in affluence or perhaps effluence.
Not certain her husband will. His liver looks set to explode judging by the pics.
Don't feel you let him down. It was an awful time.
I work on a palliative care unit and it was truly horrendous having to tell family they couldn't visit. Family who wanted desperately to. I really didn't think this would make them feel guilty as it was not their choice so your post saddens me. I hope you find closure one day and realise that there was nothing you could do. I am positive your Dad knew how much you loved him.
I feel so much anger at the parties our government had that I can't watch the news . Whilst they drank and danced I had to explain why loves ones couldn't have that last moment with their loved one. duck off Boris .
Marina Hyde on fire in the
guardian on Captain Tom. She really captures how bizarre the whole thing was and how awful Hannah is https://www.theguardian.com/comment...l-bedfordshire-council?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
guardian on Captain Tom. She really captures how bizarre the whole thing was and how awful Hannah is https://www.theguardian.com/comment...l-bedfordshire-council?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
This quote!!!
It was Hannah who came up with the OG brand name, when she took what would turn out to be the momentous decision to press release her father’s walk to the local paper. “We’ll call you Captain Tom,” she said, according to her own account. “You can’t do that,” her father replied, again according to her own account. “I retired in 1945!” He would end up being called Captain Tom.
It was Hannah who came up with the OG brand name, when she took what would turn out to be the momentous decision to press release her father’s walk to the local paper. “We’ll call you Captain Tom,” she said, according to her own account. “You can’t do that,” her father replied, again according to her own account. “I retired in 1945!” He would end up being called Captain Tom.
I feel ashamed that I initially fell for it and got swept up in it and donated a tenner to the gofundme 
I immediately started to regret though about a day later when the coverage became relentless and I first saw the daughter milking it.
I hope never to fall for such a grift again.
I immediately started to regret though about a day later when the coverage became relentless and I first saw the daughter milking it.I hope never to fall for such a grift again.
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